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SANTEE  Trolley service to the Santee Town Center has not yet been restored after a plane crashed into overhead electrical trolley cables Wednesday, although passengers have been able to use the Gillespie Field station since Wednesday night.

Officials expect service to the Santee station to remain closed through Thursday and have not estimated when it will resume.

“We will know more this afternoon,” said Rob Schupp, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transit System. “We had a fabricator repair the damaged (arms) overnight. We are working to install them now. We are also going to order brand-new parts and will install those upon delivery.”

The damaged arms are specially designed to hold the wires lower and at higher tension because the line is close to the airport. About 2,000 feet of trolley cable was damaged in the accident.

Schupp said traffic at the Gillespie Field station was lighter than usual Thursday morning and few passengers were seen arriving at the Santee station, probably because they had heard of the closure.

About 900 passengers typically use the Santee station per day.

For now, passenger are being bused between Gillespie Field Station and Santee Town Center, which is the last stop on the Green Line.

El Cajon police identified the 79-year-old pilot as Paul Oas.

Oas was headed to Ramona in a single-engine Sport Cruiser around 10:30 a.m. when he radioed the tower that he had a problem with the plane’s canopy. The plane clipped the trolley cables and flipped, landing on the road near the west end of Gillespie Field.

Oas complained at the scene of numbness in his left arm and an injury to his right hand.

The plane was based out of Gillespie Field and was used for training and rentals, said El Cajon city spokeswoman Monica Zech.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the accident.